Open Access

Moral Foundations of Welfare Attitudes: The Role of Moral Intuition and Reasoning in Pursuing Social Justice

   | Feb 16, 2016

Cite

Arts, W., & Gelissen, J. (2001). Welfare States, Solidarity and Justice Principles: Does the Type Really Matter? Acta Sociologica, 44(4), 283-299. doi:10.1080/0001699015269638510.1080/00016990152696385Search in Google Scholar

Bloom, P. (2013). Just Babies: The Origins of Good and Evil. New York: Crown Publishers.Search in Google Scholar

Bocian, K., & Wojciszke, B. (2014). Self-Interest Bias in Moral Judgments of Others’ Actions. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 40(7), 898-909. doi:10.1177/014616721452980010.1177/0146167214529800Search in Google Scholar

Bommes, M., & Geddes, A. (2000). Immigration and Welfare: Challenging the Borders of the Welfare State. London: Routledge.10.4324/9780203464526Search in Google Scholar

Brady, D., & Finnigan, R. (2014). Does Immigration Undermine Public Support for Social Policy? American Sociological Review, 79(1), 17-42. doi:10.1177/000312241351302210.1177/0003122413513022Search in Google Scholar

Brooks, C., & Manza, J. (2007). Why Welfare States Persist: The Importance of Public Opinion in Democracies. Chicago: University Of Chicago Press.10.7208/chicago/9780226075952.001.0001Search in Google Scholar

Day, M., Fiske, S., Downing, E., & Trail, T. (2014). Shifting Liberal and Conservative Attitudes Using Moral Foundations Theory. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 40(12), 1559-1573. doi:10.1177/014616721455115210.1177/0146167214551152Search in Google Scholar

Ditto, P., & Koleva, S. (2011). Moral Empathy Gaps and the American Culture War. Emotion Review, 3(3), 331-332. doi:10.1177/175407391140239310.1177/1754073911402393Search in Google Scholar

Dráľ, P. (2009). Lenivosť ako ‘esencia’ rómskej etnickej identity: kritická analýza diskurzu slovenskej sociálnej politiky. In P. Dráľ & A. Findor (Eds.), Ako skúmať národ: deväť štúdií o etnicite a nacionalizme (pp. 189-224). Brno: Tribun EU.Search in Google Scholar

Edlund, J. (1999). Trust in Government and Welfare Regimes: Attitudes to Redistribution and Financial Cheating in the USA and Norway.European Journal of Political Research, 35(3), 341-370. doi:10.1111/1475-6765.0045210.1111/1475-6765.00452Search in Google Scholar

Ervasti, H. (2012). Who Hates the Welfare State? Criticism of the Welfare State in Europe. In H. Ervasti, J. Goul Andersen, & T. Fridberg‚The Future of the Welfare State: Social Policy Attitudes and Social Capital in Europe (pp. 231-248). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.Search in Google Scholar

Feinberg, M., & Willer, R. (2012). The Moral Roots of Environmental Attitudes. Psychological Science, 24(1), 56-62. doi:10.1177/095679761244917710.1177/0956797612449177Search in Google Scholar

Fernbach, P., Rogers, Fox, C., & Sloman, S. (2013). Political Extremism Is Supported by an Illusion of Understanding. Psychological Science‚24(6), 939-946. doi:10.1177/095679761246405810.1177/0956797612464058Search in Google Scholar

Findor, A., Maďarová, Z., & Ostertágová, A. (2014). Dotazník morálnych základov: adaptácia a využitie v kontexte Slovenskej republiky. In L. Bomba, E. Kövérová, & M. Smrek (Eds.), Fenomén moci a sociálne nerovnosti. Zborník príspevkov z nultého ročníka konferencie doktorandov a mladých vedeckých pracovníkov (pp. 55-80). Bratislava: Univerzita Komenského. Retrieved from https://mocnerovnosti.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/fenomen_moci_a_socialne_nerovnosti_0.pdf Search in Google Scholar

Findor, A., Maďarová, Z., & Ostertágová, A. (2015). Morálne základy sporu o sociálnu spravodlivosť na Slovensku. In T. Podolinská & T. Hrustič (Eds.), Rómovia v majoritnej spoločnosti (pp. 46-64). Bratislava: Veda. (in press) Search in Google Scholar

Frey, R., & Morris, C. (1993). Value, Welfare, and Morality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.10.1017/CBO9780511625022Search in Google Scholar

Graham, J., Haidt, J., Koleva, S., Motyl, M., Iyer, R., Wojcik, S. P., & Ditto, P. H. (2013). Moral Foundations Theory: The Pragmatic Validity of Moral Pluralism. In P. Devine (Ed.), P. Devine & A. Plant, Advances in Experimental Social Psychology: Volume 47 (Vol. 47, pp. 55-130). New York: Academic Press Inc.Search in Google Scholar

Graham, J., Iyer, R., & Meindl, P. (2013). The Psychology of Economic Ideology: Emotion, Motivation, and Moral Intuition. Demos, 1-16. Retrieved from http://www.demos.org/sites/default/files/publications/Graham.pdf Search in Google Scholar

Graham, J., Nosek, B. A., Haidt, J., Iyer, R., Koleva, S., & Ditto, P. H. (2011). Mapping the Moral Domain. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 101(2), 366-385. doi:10.1037/a002184710.1037/a0021847Search in Google Scholar

Graham, J., Nosek, B., & Haidt, J. (2012). The Moral Stereotypes of Liberals and Conservatives: Exaggeration of Differences across the Political Spectrum. PLoS ONE, 7(12). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.005009210.1371/journal.pone.0050092Search in Google Scholar

Greene, J. (2013). Moral Tribes. New York: Penguin Press.Search in Google Scholar

Greve, B. (2008). What is Welfare? Central European Journal of Public Policy, 2(1), 50-73.Search in Google Scholar

Haidt, J. (2005). The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom. New York: Basic Books.Search in Google Scholar

Haidt, J. (2012). The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion. New York: Random House Inc.Search in Google Scholar

Haidt, J. (2013a). Moral Psychology for the Twenty-First Century.Journal of Moral Education, 42(3), 281-297. doi:10.1080/03057240.2013.81732710.1080/03057240.2013.817327Search in Google Scholar

Haidt, J. (2013b). Of Freedom and Fairness. Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, (28), 38-50. Retrieved from http://www.democracyjournal.org/28/of-freedom-and-fairness.php?page=all Search in Google Scholar

Haidt, J., Graham, J., & Joseph, C. (2009). Above and Below Left-Right: Ideological Narratives and Moral Foundations. Psychological Inquiry, 20(2-3), 110-119. doi:10.1080/10478400903028573 10.1080/10478400903028573Search in Google Scholar

Haidt, J., & Joseph, C. (2004). Intuitive Ethics: How Innately Prepared Intuitions Generate Culturally Variable Virtues. Daedalus, 133(4), 55-66. doi:10.1162/001152604236555510.1162/0011526042365555Search in Google Scholar

Iyer, R., Koleva, S., Graham, J., Ditto, P., & Haidt, J. (2012). Understanding Libertarian Morality: The Psychological Dispositions of Self-Identified Libertarians. PLoS ONE, 7(8). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.004236610.1371/journal.pone.0042366Search in Google Scholar

Jo, N. (2011). Between the Cultural Foundations of Welfare and Welfare Attitudes: The Possibility of an In-Between Level Conception of Culture for the Cultural Analysis of Welfare. Journal of European Social Policy, 21(1), 5-19. doi:10.1177/095892871038573610.1177/0958928710385736Search in Google Scholar

Kahneman, D. (2011). Thinking, Fast and Slow. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux.Search in Google Scholar

Koleva, S., Graham, J., Iyer, R., Ditto, P., & Haidt, J. (2012). Tracing the Threads: How Five Moral Concerns (Especially Purity) Help Explain Culture War Attitudes. Journal of Research in Personality, 46(2), 184-194. doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2012.01.00610.1016/j.jrp.2012.01.006Search in Google Scholar

Leon, F. (2012). Reciprocity and Public Support for the Redistributive Role of the State. Journal of European Social Policy, 22(2), 198-215. doi:10.1177/095892871143365710.1177/0958928711433657Search in Google Scholar

Mau, S. (2003). The Moral Economy of Welfare States: Britain and Germany Compared. London: Taylor & Francis, Inc.Search in Google Scholar

Milan Šimečka Foundation (2014). Ako na chudobu: prieskum verejnej mienky na Slovensku o vnímaní chudoby. Retrieved from: http://www.milansimecka.sk/akonachudobu/pdf/prieskum-verejnej-mienky.pdfSearch in Google Scholar

Petersen, M. B., Sznycer, D., Cosmides, L., & Tooby, J. (2012). Who Deserves Help? Evolutionary Psychology, Social Emotions, and Public Opinion about Welfare. Political Psychology, 33(3), 395-418. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9221.2012.00883.x Rawls, J. (1971). A Theory of Justice. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.Search in Google Scholar

Reeskens, T., & van Oorschot, W. (2012). Disentangling the ‘New Liberal Dilemma’: On the Relation between General Welfare Redistribution Preferences and Welfare Chauvinism. International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 53(2), 120-139. doi:10.1177/002071521245198710.1177/0020715212451987Search in Google Scholar

Roosma, F., van Oorschot, W., & Gelissen, J. (2014). The Weakest Link in Welfare State Legitimacy: European Perceptions of Moral and Administrative Failure in the Targeting of Social Benefits. International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 55(6), 489-508. doi:10.1177/002071521456593210.1177/0020715214565932Search in Google Scholar

Sauer, H. (2012). Educated Intuitions. Automaticity and Rationality in Moral Judgement. Philosophical Explorations, 15(3), 255-275. doi:10.1080/13869795.2012.706822 10.1080/13869795.2012.706822Search in Google Scholar

Scheepers, P., Gijsberts, M., & Coenders, M. (2002). Ethnic Exclusionism in European Countries. Public Opposition to Civil Rights for Legal Migrants as a Response to Perceived Ethnic Threat.European Sociological Review, 18(1), 17-34. doi:10.1093/ esr/18.1.17Search in Google Scholar

Schmidt, A., & Spies, D. (2014). Do Parties ‘Playing the Race Card’ Undermine Natives’ Support for Redistribution? Evidence From Europe. Comparative Political Studies, 47(4), 519-549. doi:10.1177/001041401348854210.1177/0010414013488542Search in Google Scholar

Schumacher, G., & van Kersbergen, K. (2014). Do Mainstream Parties Adapt to the Welfare Chauvinism of Populist Parties? Party Politics, 1-13. doi:10.1177/135406881454934510.1177/1354068814549345Search in Google Scholar

Shafir, E. (Ed.). (2013). The Behavioral Foundations of Public Policy. Princeton: Princeton University Press.10.1515/9781400845347Search in Google Scholar

Shionoya, Y. (2005). Economy and Morality: The Philosophy of the Welfare State. London: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.10.4337/9781845425708Search in Google Scholar

Sinnott-Armstrong, W. (2008). Moral Psychology: The Cognitive Science of Morality: Intuition and Diversity: Volume 2. Cambridge, MA: Bradford Books.Search in Google Scholar

Stegmueller, D., Scheepers, P., Rossteutscher, S., & de Jong, E. (2011). Support for Redistribution in Western Europe: Assessing the role of religion. European Sociological Review, 28(4), 482-497. doi:10.1093/esr/jcr01110.1093/esr/jcr011Search in Google Scholar

Stewart, M. (Ed.). (2012). The Gypsy ‘Menace’: Populism and the New Anti-Gypsy Politics. London: Hurst & Company.Search in Google Scholar

Svallfors, S. (Ed.). (2012). Contested Welfare States: Welfare Attitudes in Europe and Beyond. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.10.11126/stanford/9780804782524.001.0001Search in Google Scholar

Tolman, C. W., Cherry, F., van Hezewijk, R., & Lubek, I. (Eds.). (1996). Problems of Theoretical Psychology. Concord, ON: Captus Press.Search in Google Scholar

Van der Waal, J., de Koster, W., & van Oorschot, W. (2013). Three Worlds of Welfare Chauvinism? How Welfare Regimes Affect Support for Distributing Welfare to Immigrants in Europe. Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice, 15(2), 164-181. doi:10.1080/13876988.2013.78514710.1080/13876988.2013.785147Search in Google Scholar

Van Oorschot, W. (2006). Making the Difference in Social Europe: Deservingness Perceptions among Citizens of European Welfare States. Journal of European Social Policy, 16(1), 23-42. doi:10.1177/095892870605982910.1177/0958928706059829Search in Google Scholar

Wilson, T. D. (2011). Redirect: The Surprising New Science of Psychological Change. New York: Little, Brown and Company. Search in Google Scholar